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The government of Alameda County, California, is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law, and the Charter of the County of Alameda. [1] Much of the Government of California is in practice the responsibility of county governments such as the Government of Alameda County. The County government provides countywide ...
[1] [2] The proposition repealed Proposition 8 passed during the 2008 general election and amend the state constitution to declare that the "right to marry is a fundamental right". It also ensured that same-sex couples would have the right to marry in California in case the United States Supreme Court ever withdraws that federal right , thus ...
Alameda County (/ ˌ æ l ə ˈ m iː d ə / ⓘ AL-ə-MEE-də) is a county located in the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,682,353, [4] [6] making it the 7th-most populous county in the state [7] and 21st most populous nationally.
Proposition 3, marriage equality: This ballot measure would eliminate outdated language from California’s Constitution that says marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Voters ...
The board was created in 1855, with the first supervisor meeting held at the San Leandro courthouse April 2, 1855. From the creation of the county in 1853 to the creation of the first board of supervisors in 1855, Alameda County was governed by a Court of Sessions, a special provisional form, combining executive, legislative and judicial functions.
Part of the county's territory went to Del Norte County in 1857, and in 1874 the remainder was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. Pautah County, California was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada.
Alameda (/ ˌ æ l ə ˈ m iː d ə / AL-ə-MEE-də; Spanish:; Spanish for "tree-lined path") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the Bay Area. The city is built on an informal archipelago in San Francisco Bay , consisting of Alameda Island , Bay Farm Island and Coast Guard Island , along ...
Berkeley is also part of Alameda County, for which the Government of Alameda County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law, and the Charter of the County of Alameda. [133]